A 1982 protocol still dictates how your devices find each other on the network ...

Most consumer routers offer a helpful setting called Universal Plug And Play (UpnP), but what exactly does it do, and is it ...

What is Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)? Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a network protocol that enables routers to exchange information more efficiently than ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

A router is a physical or virtual appliance that passes information between two or more packet-switched computer networks. A router inspects a given data packet's destination IP address, calculates ...

I'm trying to set up a VPN using Windows 2k server and in order to do it I understand that I need to forward a port #1723 as well as IP Protocol 47 (GRE). I can forward the port just fine, but what is ...

New testing by Consumer Reports shows important differences in how routers from popular brands handle digital security. Some of the 29 routers we examined this spring and summer build in important ...

Running out of Ethernet ports for your smart home? Discover how to repurpose an old Wi-Fi router into a free network switch ...